Pete Earley Quotes

I'm a journalism junkie.

I love journalism.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

I used to be a journalist.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

Profiles aren't journalism.

People say, 'Oh, you're doing the job of journalists.' I think it's very important to note that we can't do our job without journalists. Journalists can do their job without late-night comedians. They'd be just fine without us. But we, of course, use their work every day to build our pieces.

My dream was to do political journalism.

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

I have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs that they have to do. I am much more in awe of and am celebratory of great journalism when I see it, and I'm much more critical of bad journalism, or crap masquerading as journalism.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.